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Application for the Chairs of Roundtables/Sessions of Shanghai Forum 2017 Officially Opens Up

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Publication Date：2016-09-28

I About the Forum and Theme

Shanghai Forum,launched
in 2005, is known as one of the most famous international forums held
in Shanghai. Co-hosted by Fudan University and Korea Foundation for
Advanced Studies, undertaken by Fudan Development Institute (FDDI). The
forum takes its mission to “Concentrate on Asia, Focus on Hot Issues,
Congregate Elites, Promote Interactions, Enhance Cooperation and Seek
Consensus” seriously. It endeavors to build an interactive platform for
multi-sided communication amongst academic, political, commercial, and
press circles through which significant problems both in Asia and the
world will be discussed comprehensively and profoundly, so as to provide
policy consulting service to the government, corporations, institutes
and think tanks.

Shanghai Forum 2017,
the 12th annual conference of Shanghai Forum, will be held in Shanghai
from May 27th to May 29th, 2017. The theme is “Asia and the World: New
Impetus, New Structure and New Order”. The forum consists of four panels
including Integration & Innovation, Green Development, Cooperation
& Sharing, Coordination & Governance. We are seeking to solve
problems through governance, implement transition based on innovation,
achieve a win-win situation by cooperation, so as to realize the common
development of Asia. We encourage organizations with different academic
background to undertake the sessions/roundtables so as to carry out
interdisciplinary discussions.

II The Management of the Forum

The 3-day Shanghai
Forum 2017 will be composed of keynote speeches, roundtables and
sessions. Each roundtable/session lasts 3.5 hours (either in the morning
or afternoon).

Each roundtable/session
has one or two chairs and one liaison person. The chair is in charge of
all the organizational work, such as inviting guests, designing the
agenda, collecting papers, organizing academic discussions and writing
reports. The responsibility of the liaison person include assisting the
chair with the preparatory work; coordinating among the chair, the
organizing committee and guests; fulfilling tasks assigned by the
organizing committee. Each roundtable/session
is required to submit two research papers or policy reports (around 5000
words for each). The paper to be submitted before the forum is to
establish a clear idea about the session and show the chair's
understanding and research depth of the topic; the paper to be submitted
after the forum is to synthesize the opinions of all the guests in the
session.

III The Application Requirements

Now the application for
roundtables and sessions officially opens up to universities, think
tanks, governments and enterprises all over the world. The specific
requirements are as follows:

1. The Topics:

The topics of each
roundtable/session should focus on the general theme while discussing
from a specific perspective. The topics should be realistic, valuable,
strategic and be able to draw extensive attention of the public and
media. The topics of roundtables are required to be more policy-oriented
and the topics of sessions should be more academic and proactive.

After the application
is approved, the organizing committee may suggest on the topic according
to the overall layout of the forum.

2. Qualification:

The applicant should be qualified with rich academic/social/media resources and influential in specific areas.

3. The Guests: The
chair should invite guests with world-class research backgrounds or
social influence. To guarantee the depth of discussion and promote
international communication, each roundtable/session can invite 12
speakers, including 4 from overseas, 4 from China and 4 from Shanghai.
If the chair is from outside of Fudan University, we suggest that
scholars from Fudan are invited to participate in the
roundtable/session.

After the application
is approved, the organizing committee may suggest on the guest list to
assure the diversity of guests and the quality of discussion.

4. Co-chairs: We welcome
applicants with a cross-disciplinary or cross-institutional background
and encourage cooperation with well-known institutions in the world,
especially distinguished think tanks. 5. The applicant who
brings in resources is preferred, such as inviting keynote speakers at
the opening or closing ceremony, introducing cooperative opportunities,
media resources, projects and funds, etc.

If you are interested
in organizing roundtables/sessions of Shanghai Forum 2017, please
download and fill in the form of "Application for Roundtables/Sessions
of Shanghai Forum 2017"(download button)
and send it back to the email address: shanghaiforum@fudan.edu.cn
before 20th October, 2016. The result will be announced after a
responsible process of selection.